Receivers Patents (Class 375/316)
  • Patent number: 8861513
    Abstract: A communications parallel bus receiver interface having N+1 data lines and method of operation. The parallel bus interface employs receiver redundancy at the bus level such that there are N+1 receiver devices. One of the N+1 data signals comprising a spare data signal when a failure occurs in a corresponding channel transmitting one of N parallel data signals. An input switching network is configured to receive and couple N+1 parallel data signals along respective paths to corresponding parallel-configured bit receiver devices, and adapted to couple one received data signal to two or three adjacent bit receivers. A calibration device calibrates one of the two or three adjacent bit receivers, and a qualification device qualifies data decisions made during calibration processes performed by the calibration device. The method cycles through N+1 receivers for periodic recalibration of each receiver (one at a time) while N+1 inputs are processed continuously and uninterrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy O. Dickson, Daniel M. Dreps, Frank D. Ferraiolo
  • Patent number: 8861645
    Abstract: Digital broadcasting transmission and reception devices and methods thereof are provided. The digital broadcasting transmission device includes a randomizer which randomizes a dual transport stream including a normal stream and a robust stream, a supplementary reference signal inserter which inserts a certain supplementary reference signal into a stuffing region included in the randomized dual transport stream, a Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder which adds a parity into a parity region included in the dual transport stream, a robust processor which configures a new dual transport stream by convolution-encoding the robust stream among the dual transport stream, an interleaver which interleaves the configured dual transport stream, a trellis encoder which trellis-encode the interleaved dual transport stream, and a modulator which transmits the trellis-encoded dual transport stream. Accordingly, a sub-channel can be provided in which the robust data and the supplementary reference signal will be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-soo Kim, Eui-jun Park, Yong-deok Chang, Hae-joo Jeong
  • Patent number: 8861643
    Abstract: A signal transmitting device and a method for transmitting via a signal transmitting device is disclosed. In one embodiment the transmitting device comprises a first resonant circuit with a resonant circuit inductance and a resonant circuit capacitance and a second resonant circuit with a resonant circuit inductance and a resonant circuit capacitance, a coupling element which couples the first resonant circuit to the second resonant circuit, a first excitation circuit, coupled to the first resonant circuit, and at least one further excitation circuit coupled to the second resonant circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Martin Feldtkeller
  • Publication number: 20140301504
    Abstract: Method and system for decomposing a complex channel matrix at MIMO receiver is disclosed. The method comprises determining a real channel matrix from the complex channel matrix, wherein the number of rows and columns of the real channel matrix depends on a number of transmitting chains and a number of receiving chains. Thereafter, the below mentioned steps repeated predetermined number of times: A pre-Householder vector is determined based on the real channel matrix. A Householder vector is determined based on the pre-Householder vector. Thereafter a Householder matrix is determined based on the Householder vector and a transpose of the Householder vector without performing division operation. Finally, an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix are determined based on the Householder matrix, wherein the upper triangular matrix comprises a predetermined number of zeros in an upper triangle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Uurmi Systems Private Limited
    Inventors: Nanda Kishore Chavali, Kranti Kumar Balaga
  • Patent number: 8855241
    Abstract: An apparatus for decoding GNSS navigation data to generate at least a target string or subframe includes a demodulator and a processing unit. The demodulator is utilized for demodulating a received signal to generate at least a plurality of strings or subframes having a same string index or subframe index. The processing unit is coupled to the demodulator, and is utilized for determining the target string or subframe according to the plurality of strings or subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventor: Yuan-Wen Ting
  • Patent number: 8855242
    Abstract: A data receiving circuit includes a generating unit that generates multiple clocks with different phases from one another. The data receiving circuit includes multiple acquiring units that acquire data from a received data signal by using different clocks from one another out of the multiple clocks generated by the generating unit. The data receiving circuit includes a determining unit that determines whether the data acquired by the multiple acquiring units are consistent. The data receiving circuit includes a correcting unit that corrects the phases of the multiple clocks in a direction in which data inconsistency does not occur when the determining unit has determined that there is data inconsistent with the other data in the data acquired by the multiple acquiring units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Hideyuki Negi, Chikahiro Deguchi, Yutaka Sekino
  • Patent number: 8855175
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compensation for Passive Intermodulation (PIM) distortion in a receiver. In one embodiment, a communication device includes a transmitter that is configured to receive a digital input signal and output a radio frequency transmit signal, a main receiver configured to receive a radio frequency receive signal and output a digital output signal, and a PIM compensation subsystem. The radio frequency receive signal includes PIM distortion that is a non-linear function of the radio frequency transmit signal output by the transmitter. In order to compensate for the PIM distortion, a PIM compensation subsystem receives the digital input signal of the transmitter, generates a digital PIM estimate signal that is an estimate of the PIM distortion in the digital output signal of the main receiver, and subtracts the digital PIM estimate signal from the digital output signal of the main receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mark Wyville, Lars Johan Thorebäck
  • Patent number: 8855239
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui-jun Park, Yong-deok Chang
  • Patent number: 8855247
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless receiving apparatus includes a receiver, a phase rotation module and a demodulator. The receiver receives a first signal, the first signal being processed a bit conversion, a scramble and an M-phase shift keying modulation processes. The phase rotation module multiplies a first symbol obtained from the first signal with an amount of phase rotation determined by a scramble sequence used for the scramble, to obtain a second symbol. The demodulator demodulates the second symbol by referring to signal points of N-PSK replica signal generated based on a data rate and the bit conversion process and calculates a likelihood obtained from demodulation as a soft decision value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroki Mori, Masaki Ogata
  • Patent number: 8855221
    Abstract: The techniques and components described herein may improve the performance for a class of reduced-complexity receiver designs for coded OFDM MIMO systems with bit interleaved coded modulation. The receiver structures described are soft-input soft-output inner/outer decoder receiver structures that include one or more of the following: 1) an inner decoder that includes a linear front-end followed by a limited tree-search based on a soft-output M-algorithm; 2) a conventional near-optimal or optimal decoder for the outer binary code; and 3) iterative decoding (ID), whereby decoding (output) information is passed from one decoder module as input to the other and used to refine and improve the inner/outer decoding module outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Haralabos Papadopoulos, Ming-Yang Chen, Sean A. Ramprashad
  • Patent number: 8856012
    Abstract: A method of encoding an audio signal, where signals including two or more channel signals are downmixed to a mono signal, the mono signal is divided into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal is encoded through algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP) or transform coded excitation (TCX), and the high-frequency signal is encoded using the low-frequency signal. A method of decoding of an audio signal, a low-frequency signal encoded through ACELP or TCX is decoded, a high-frequency signal is decoded using the low-frequency signal, the low-frequency signal and the high-frequency signal are combined to generate a mono signal, and the mono signal is upmixed by decoding spatial parameters regarding signals including two or more channel signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-sang Sung, Eun-mi Oh, Jung-hoe Kim, Ki-hyun Choo, Mi-young Kim
  • Patent number: 8855240
    Abstract: Channel estimation and data detection in a wireless communication system in the presence of inter-cell interference is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Chandra S. Bontu, Amin Mobasher
  • Patent number: 8854124
    Abstract: The envelope detector for detecting an envelope of a digital modulation signal in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, includes: a mixer configured to receive the digital modulation signal and output a square signal squaring the digital modulation signal when being applied with bias voltage; a bias voltage applying unit configured to apply the bias voltage to the mixer; and a DC blocking capacitor configured to be connected to the mixer to block DC component included in the square signal. In accordance with the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide the envelope detector having the simple structure while having the good receiving sensitivity and the wide dynamic range characteristics and detect the envelope of the modulated signal without transmitting the carrier signal in the transmitter and generating the separate signal in the receiver, thereby saving the costs consumed to implement the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Tae-Jin Chung
  • Patent number: 8855177
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally pertain to systems and methods for reducing RF interference in communication systems. A communication system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure comprises an element management system (EMS) communicating through a network with a plurality of network access devices. The EMS is configured to manage at least one network access device such that the device refrains from communicating data or reduces a data rate within a frequency range of a nearby interferer during time periods when interfering activity of the interferer is increased. Accordingly, the effects of RF interference for signals communicated by the device is reduced and degradation of service is prevented to an extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: ADTRAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Arlynn Wayne Wilson, Kent E. Darzi, Philip David Williams
  • Patent number: 8855248
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for determining a word boundary in an incoming data stream includes initializing an N bit register with initial content, receiving a number of consecutive N bit words of the incoming data stream and processing each of the number of consecutive N bit words. The processing includes performing operations per bit position of the register, including performing an XOR operation on a corresponding received data bit and a next received data bit, performing an AND operation on a current state of the bit position of the register and a result of the XOR operation, and storing a result of the AND operation to update the state of the bit position of the register. The word boundary is defined based on the content of the register following the processing of the number of consecutive N bit words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig Barner
  • Patent number: 8855237
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui-jun Park, Yong-deok Chang
  • Patent number: 8855215
    Abstract: A method and a circuit are provided for providing phase or frequency synthesis using sigma-delta modulation bit-stream techniques in which data is encoded utilizing sigma-delta modulation and then digital-to-time conversion (DTC) or digital-to-frequency conversion (DFC). In some embodiments this encoded data stream is further subjected to phase or frequency domain filtering, which in some embodiments is carried out by a higher-order phase-locked loop (PLL).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University
    Inventors: Gordon Roberts, Sadok Aouini
  • Patent number: 8855238
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui-jun Park, Yong-deok Chang
  • Patent number: 8855245
    Abstract: A method for transmitting signals based on dual sensing in a wireless communication system is disclosed. One or more sensor nodes receive Gaussian codes corresponding respectively to the one or more sensor nodes, allocated from a fusion center. The one or more sensor nodes determine whether to operate at a specific time. At least one sensor node that has determined to operate among the one or more sensor nodes multiplies the Gaussian codes by a transmission signal and transmits the multiplied signal to the fusion center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Byounghoon Kim, Seunggye Hwang, Dongku Kim, Jeonghun Park, Youngwoo Yun
  • Patent number: 8855256
    Abstract: An adaptive filtering arrangement for providing bit-synchronous, time-dependent filtering of a time-varying analog input signal taking the form of a time-dependent low pass filter including at least one adaptive resistive element that exhibits a varying resistance value as a function of a time. The time-dependent low pass filter uses as a “control” input a modifying element responsive to a clock signal associated with the received signal for creating a time-varying control signal applied as an input to the adaptive resistive element. The time-varying control signal is created to be synchronous with a baud interval of a created output signal such that the instantaneous bandwidth of the time-dependent low pass filter is synchronous with the baud interval, exhibiting a relatively small bandwidth during a central portion of the baud interval and exhibiting a relatively large bandwidth during a transition from one baud interval to the next.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Receivers Unlimited LLC
    Inventors: John Sargent French, Ernest Eisenhardt Bergmann
  • Patent number: 8848832
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eui-jun Park, Yong-deok Chang
  • Patent number: 8848818
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating a codebook in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The codebook generation method includes determining one or more dominant singular vectors in a channel matrix for antennas and setting each of the dominant singular vectors as a random non-zero vector, generating a first codebook having codewords, a minimum distance between the codewords being maximized, using the random non-zero vector in a region that includes unit norm vectors each having a Euclidean distance to each of the dominant singular vectors, equal to or less than a predetermined value, generating a second codebook corresponding to a unitary matrix that rotates the random non-zero vector toward the dominant singular vectors, and generating a final codebook using the first and second codebooks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyung Tae Kim, Dae Won Lee, Han Byul Seo, Byoung Hoon Kim, Ki Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 8848762
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a wireless receiver and a method for configuring the wireless receiver, comprising the actions of determining a geometry factor for a channel over which signals are transmitted to the wireless receiver, the geometry factor being a measure indicative of inter-cell interference plus noise power at the wireless receiver; determining the variance of the determined geometry factor, the variance being a measure indicative of the variation in time or rate of the geometry factor; and configuring the wireless receiver based on the geometry factor and the variance of the geometry factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Elias Jonsson, Eric Blanquer, Kazuyoshi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 8848834
    Abstract: A method for detecting a format of a frame in a communication system is presented. An embodiment of the method includes receiving the frame comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The plurality of OFDM symbols may include at least one signal field symbol. The method further includes determining a modulation associated with the at least one signal field symbol. The modulation may be a first modulation or a second modulation. Also, the method includes estimating a position of the at least one signal field symbol among the plurality of symbols, and extracting a coding rate of the received frame. The method then includes detecting the format of the received frame based on the determined modulation and the estimated position of the at least one signal field symbol, and the extracted coding rate of the received frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Uurmi Systems Pvt. Ltd
    Inventor: Nanda Kishore Chavali
  • Patent number: 8848836
    Abstract: An apparatus to process an input signal received via a power line in a power line communication system includes a jammer remover and a jammer detector. The jammer remover removes interference resulting from transmission of electricity and the input signal over the power line from the input signal. The jammer remover generates a jammer-canceled signal using an adaptive filtering procedure. The jammer detector is coupled to the jammer remover to detect the interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Maher Umari, Kaveh Razazian, Victor V. Loginov
  • Patent number: 8848833
    Abstract: A receiver includes a first local oscillator (LO), with a pair of in-phase and quadrature (IQ) mixers coupled to the first LO and configured to generate complex IQ signals having an IQ imbalance. The receiver also includes a second LO, with a complex mixer coupled to the second LO and configured to mix the complex IQ signals and generate intermediate frequency (IF) signals based thereon. A controller is coupled between the pair of IQ mixers and the complex mixer and configured to set the first LO and the second LO so that the complex IQ signals and an interfering signal generated due to the IQ imbalance of the complex IQ signals have a same sign and non-overlapping bands at an input of the complex mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Oleksiy Kravets
  • Patent number: 8848821
    Abstract: Transmissions are received on a plurality of uplink physical resource blocks. An acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement for each of the received transmissions is mapped to a downlink channel, such that linear increasing sequential indices of the physical resource blocks map to linear increasing sequential indices of n groups of the downlink channel which repeat until all the physical resource blocks are mapped, in which the downlink channel comprises a plurality of n groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Lars Erik Lindh, Jussi Kustaa Ojala, Frank Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 8848847
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a combined mixer filter circuit. The circuit includes a sampler, a plurality of filter branches, and a coefficient generator. The sampler is configured to provide a sampled signal by sampling a received signal at a specified rate. The plurality of filter branches has selectable filter coefficients. The plurality of filter branches are configured to receive the sampled signal and generate a mixed and filtered output signal without a separate mixer component. The coefficient generator is coupled to the plurality of filter branches. The coefficient generator is configured to assign filter coefficient values to the selectable filter coefficients to yield a selected mixing function for the mixed filtered output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Schultz, Markus Hammes, Rainer Kreienkamp
  • Patent number: 8848835
    Abstract: An interpolation circuit includes: a generation circuit configured to generate interpolated data based on a plurality of pieces of input data in time sequence; a first analog digital converter configured to convert first interpolated data at a data point of the interpolated data into first digital data; and a second analog digital converter configured to convert second interpolated data at a change point into second digital data of the interpolated data, a second number of quantization bits of the second analog digital converter being smaller than a first number of quantization bits of the first analog digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Takayuki Shibasaki
  • Patent number: 8848842
    Abstract: An embodiment of a decoder is disclosed. For this embodiment of the decoder, a first estimation unit and a second estimation unit are for iterative decoding. A scheduler is to receive a mode select signal to provide either an indication of first scheduling information or second scheduling information to the first estimation unit and the second estimation unit responsive to the mode select signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher H. Dick
  • Patent number: 8848852
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a transmitter, a receiver and methods of operating a transmitter and a receiver. In one embodiment, the transmitter has at least three transmit antennas and includes a feedback decoding portion configured to recover at least one group-based channel quality indicator provided by a feedback signal from a receiver, wherein each group-based channel quality indicator corresponds to one of a set of transmission layer groupings. The transmitter also includes a modulator portion configured to generate at least one symbol stream and a mapping portion configured to multiplex each symbol stream to at least one transmission layer grouping. The transmitter further includes a pre-coder portion configured to couple the transmission layers to the transmit antennas for a transmission. The receiver includes a decoder portion which is configured to use decoded signals from at least one group to decode the other groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Badri Varadarajan, Eko N. Onggosanusi
  • Publication number: 20140286458
    Abstract: An RF-LSI receives a first signal transmitted with a first system frequency and a second signal transmitted with a second system frequency. In the RF-LSI 50, a frequency converter 55 performs frequency conversion on the received first signal (i.e., a master-received signal) and the received second signal (i.e., a slave-received signal) such that the first signal and the second signal do not overlap each other on the frequency axis and the frequency of each of the first signal and the second signal falls within a range containing a reference frequency and having a predetermined bandwidth. A mixer mixes the first signal subjected to the frequency conversion and the second signal subjected to the frequency conversion. An ADC performs analog-to-digital conversion on the mixed signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: AKIO SASAKI, Mitsuhiko Manpo, Yukihiko OSHIKIRI
  • Patent number: 8842743
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device communicates with N remote units. Each remote unit includes a plurality of antennas, wireless transmitting units, and wireless receiving units. The communication device is provided with a received signal processing unit, to which received signals by a plurality of the wireless receiving units are combined and input, and which specifies the remote unit subjected to interference, and a switch which decreases a reception gain of the wireless receiving unit included in N?1 remote units out of the N remote units in a predetermined measurement section. The received signal processing unit calculates a correlation value between the combined received signals and a reference signal transmitted by a user terminal connected to another base station system in the measurement section and specifies the remote unit subjected to the interference by the second user terminal based on the correlation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuguhide Aoki, Yuji Tohzaka, Yasuhiko Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8842781
    Abstract: A device includes a delay profile estimator to estimate a delay profile of multiple paths of a radio signal, wherein the delay profile indicates signal powers of the multiple paths as a function of time delay. The device further includes a path selector to select a path from the delay profile if the path has a signal power higher than a threshold. The threshold has a first threshold value in a first section of the delay profile which is higher than a second threshold value in a second section of the delay profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Alper Ceylan
  • Patent number: 8842752
    Abstract: A multiuser scheme allowing for a number of users, sets of user, or carriers to share one or more channels is provided. In the invention, the available channel bandwidth is subdivided into a number of equal-bandwidth subchannels according to standard OFDM practice. A transmitter transmits data on a set of OFDM subchannels that need not be contiguous in the spectrum or belong to the same OFDM channel. A receiver receives and decodes the data and detects errors on subchannels. The receiver then broadcasts the identity of those subchannels on which the error rate exceeds a specific threshold, and the transmitter may select different subchannels for transmission based on this information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amer A. Hassan, Christian Huitema, Wayne Stark, Yunnan Wu, Philip Andrew Chou
  • Patent number: 8842791
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and systems of synchronizing a receiver to a desired signal are disclosed. One method includes obtaining synchronization information of an interfering signal, and adjusting an out-of-band response of a receiver filter based at least in part on the synchronization information of the interfering signal, wherein the in-band response of the receiver filter is determined by frequency components of the desired signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Posedge Inc.
    Inventor: Sujai Chari
  • Patent number: 8842779
    Abstract: Embodiments of user equipment and methods for determining IQ imbalance parameters are described. In some embodiments, a method for determining in-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) imbalance (IQ imbalance) parameters based on a known signal in a dual-carrier receiver using at least one controllable frequency offset includes receiving a known signal modulated onto a first radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency and a second RF carrier frequency different than the first RF carrier frequency. The known signal is downconverted to a baseband signal for the carriers by conversion from the respective RF carrier frequencies to an intermediate frequency (IF) using a common RF local oscillator (LO) and by further conversion from IF to baseband using carrier specific IF LOs, where a controllable frequency offset is used. Any controllable frequency offset is removed from the baseband signal for the first and second carriers to produce representations of the received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Chester Park, Jim Svensson
  • Patent number: 8842778
    Abstract: A receiver may be dynamically configurable, during run-time, into a plurality of modes of operation. In a first mode of operation the receiver may demodulate received signals having relative low inter-symbol correlation using a near zero ISI filter and symbol slicing. In a second mode of operation the receiver may demodulate received signals having relatively high inter-symbol correlation using an input filter configured to achieve a desired total partial response and a sequence estimation algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: MagnaCom Ltd.
    Inventor: Amir Eliaz
  • Patent number: 8842777
    Abstract: Circuitry separates a modulation signal into digital sign and magnitude signal components. The digital magnitude signal is converted to an analog magnitude signal. The analog magnitude signal is the mixed with an in-phase or quadrature carrier signal under the influence of the digital sign signal and routed to a driver output stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan van Waasen
  • Patent number: 8842770
    Abstract: A method is for decoding a pulse signal modulated through a transmitted reference modulation scheme. The modulated pulse signal may include, repetitively, a reference pulse followed by an information pulse delayed with a delay. The method may include subtracting or adding from the modulated pulse signal, a version of the modulated pulse signal delayed with the delay for obtaining a processed signal, and performing a non-coherent detection on the processed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics N.V.
    Inventors: Gian Mario Maggio, Chiara Cattaneo, Philippe Rouzet
  • Patent number: 8842775
    Abstract: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a telecommunications system. The telecommunications system may include at least one actively operating component and at least one redundant component. The redundant component may include a first subcircuitry for receiving synchronization information and at least one second subcircuitry. The first subcircuitry may be activated independently of the second subcircuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dmitri Garaschenko, Steven Driediger, Sandy Pearse, Tony D'Addona, Michel Patoine
  • Patent number: 8842776
    Abstract: A receiver and associated method estimates a channel impulse response of the communications signal. A communications signal is received as a burst of transmitted symbols, including a known training sequence. The joint estimation of timing offset and initial channel impulse response is determined based on the cross-correlations of the known transmitted symbols and received communications signal. A constant modulus interference removal iteration is applied to improve the initial channel impulse estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Huan Wu, Sean Simmons, Zoltan Kemenczy
  • Patent number: 8842223
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a transmitter apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a transmitter system capable of easily transmitting a wideband signal. The transmitter apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that obtains first transmission control information; a second acquisition unit that obtains second transmission control information similar to information input to another transmitter apparatus; and a generating unit that processes transmission target data based on a parameter contained in the first transmission control information and generates data including the processed transmission target data and the second transmission control information. The present technology can be applied to a transmitter apparatus that transmits a DVB-C2 signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Takahashi, Lachlan Bruce Michael, Takashi Yokokawa, Naoki Yoshimochi, Takahiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8842785
    Abstract: A received signal of interest is processed by determining timing of interference spikes in the received signal of interest. Receivers can determine when certain types of interference spikes are expected to occur, e.g., based on when different users are scheduled to transmit data during an overlapping portion of the same transmission time interval. The interference timing information is used by the receiver to soft scale signal values recovered from the received signal of interest that coincide with the interference spikes separately from remaining ones of the signal values. This way, fast changing interference power can be accurately tracked during periods of known interference spikes while also accurately tracking slower changing interference power during other periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Ning He, Håkan B. Björkegren, Fredrik Gunnarsson
  • Patent number: 8842750
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulated signal at a modulator; filtering the received modulated signal using a plurality of sets of filter coefficients with a linear predictor algorithm; and estimating a channel frequency response based on the filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Parveen K. Shukla, Bernard Arambepola, Thushara Hewavithana, Sahan S. Gamage
  • Patent number: 8842722
    Abstract: Equalization techniques are provided for high-speed data communications and, more specifically, DFE (decision feedback equalizer) circuits and methods are provided which implement a high-order continuous time filter in a DFE feedback path to emulate structured elements of a channel response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy O. Dickson, Rui Yan Matthew Loh
  • Patent number: 8842719
    Abstract: To reduce the time of reception operation switching between multiple wireless systems, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first reception unit including a first analog reception unit and a first digital reception unit, and a digital interface. The first analog reception unit includes a first reception mixer and a first A/D converter, and the first digital reception unit includes a first digital filter. The first reception unit, an oscillator, and a PLL enable switching from a reception operation for a first RF reception signal of a first system to a reception operation for a second RF reception signal of a second system. In a period of an end transition operation of the first digital reception unit in the switching, the PLL starts a lock operation so as to match a frequency of an oscillation output signal generated from the oscillator to a desired frequency of the second system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Igarashi Yutaka, Katsube Yusaku
  • Publication number: 20140269997
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a low noise frequency converter capable of oscillating various frequencies according to the user's selection. The user selects at least one or more frequencies from among a plurality of frequencies. The low noise frequency converter receives a control signal from the user, and oscillates a frequency selected by the user according to the received control signal. The low noise frequency converter uses the oscillated frequencies for frequency conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: INTELLIAN TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Soo Jin Lee, Seung Hyun Cha, Jin Woo Jung
  • Publication number: 20140269996
    Abstract: A LIN receiver includes a single, low power structure for both sleep and silent modes, with a single comparator for detecting LIN signaling during both sleep and silent modes as well as during active mode. In some embodiments, full receiving capability is implemented with a current as low as 5 microamps. In particular, dominant and recessive levels for the wakeup bloc are identical to those of standard LIN levels, fixed at about 3.5 V. Consequently, full LIN receiving capability is available during sleep mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Philippe Deval, Marija Fernandez, Patrick Besseux
  • Publication number: 20140269995
    Abstract: A single receive chain of a MIMO receiver is activated during a low power listen mode. Upon detecting a legacy short training field (L-STF) in a received packet, the single receive chain performs a first frequency estimation, and activates one or more additional receive chains of the MIMO receiver. The MIMO receiver uses maximal ratio combining (MRC) to receive the signal using the first receive chain and the one or more additional activated receive chains, wherein the MRC is based, at least in part, on the first frequency estimation. The MIMO receiver may determine whether the received packet is a high throughput/very high throughput (HT/VHT) packet, and if not, deactivate the one or more additional receive chains. In one alternative, the additional receive chains are not activated until determining that a HT/VHT packet has been received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Kai Shi, Paul J. Husted, Ning Zhang